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A chunk of ice, ?half the size of a car? fell out of the sky and ripped through the roof of a repair service area at an Acura dealership in Charleston, South Carolina. Authorities say samples of the ice are being tested by state officials, but for now, the source of the ice remains a mystery.

The ice landed about 9 a.m. last Wednesday, just missing a dealership employee and causing $5,000 damage to the roof and damage to a new car, according to St. Andrews Fire Department Captain Ray Gorham. ?It punched through the roof like you punch your hand through a piece of paper,? he says. ?It had to come from high up and had to be traveling at a high rate of speed. It had to be a fairly large piece because it put a 3-foot hole in the roof.?
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In 1991 hikers who were climbing the mountains between Austria and Italy discovered the remains of a man in the melting snow that had been preserved in a glacier for 5,000 years.

An examination last year showed that an arrowhead was embedded in his left shoulder, an injury that clearly could not have been self-inflicted. Now, based on new evidence, Johan Reinhard, an explore-in-residence with the National Geographic Society, has proposed that the ?Iceman? was killed as a sacrifice to the gods. He says the arrowhead wound, which was overlooked in previous examinations, makes it clear that the Iceman was shot in the back. ?It might have been murder,? says Reinhard, ?or it might have been ritual sacrifice.?
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Astronomers have found hints of a massive, distant, still unseen object at the edge of the solar system. It could be a 10th planet or perhaps a failed companion star, and has an orbit that is 3 trillion miles away.

Two teams of scientists, from England and the University of Louisiana, independently report this conclusion based on the highly elliptical orbits of comets that originate from an icy cloud of debris far beyond Pluto. ?We were driven to this by rejecting everything else we could think of,? says University of Louisiana physicist Daniel Whitmire.
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More than 100,000 people are unaccounted for after the eruption of the Mount Nyiragongo volcano in eastern Congo, which has devastated the town of Goma and sent another 300,000 victims fleeing into neighboring Rwanda. Tens of thousands more may be trapped between three rivers of molten rock streaming from central Africa?s most dangerous volcano. Now observers flying over the area report that a new cone is forming, six miles east of Nyiragongo.
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